Bussed out: how America moves thousands of homeless people around the country

New Study Finds ‘Winking’ Star May Be Devouring Wrecked Planets

A new approach for detecting planets in the Alpha Centauri system

Spongy Rocks Ruined The Chances For Life On Mars

A History of Women Who Burned to Death in Flammable Dresses

Video: How to Make an Elephant Explode with Science

Watching a Fall: The allure and shame of watching America’s last public hanging

The monster beneath

Glow in the dark sharks: new species discovered in Hawaii — and it glows

Perseus Cluster: A New Twist in the Dark Matter Tale

The Soviet Era’s Deadliest Scientist Is Regaining Popularity in Russia

Changing Inmates’ Behavior With Architecture

Shipwreck Is Everywhere

Scientists hope to inject robo-cat with AI to help seniors

Habitable planets around pulsars theoretically possible

Rice U. physicists discover new type of quantum material

Loud orgies of Mexican fish could deafen dolphins, say scientists

Estonia, the Digital Republic

Video: A Glacier Disappears in Alaska

Fungi made life on Earth possible, researchers claim

How quantum computing will change the world

The Greatest Leap, Part 3: The triumph and near-tragedy of the first Moon landing

Get Ready For A Meatless Meat Explosion, As Big Food Gets On Board

Riding a Time Capsule to Apartment 8G

China’s Crazy Plan to Keep Sand From Swallowing the World

NASA solves how a Jupiter jet stream shifts into reverse

Mass of Warm Rock Rising Beneath New England, Rutgers Study Suggests

He Stole $100 Million From His Clients. Now He’s Living in Luxury

Uncertain Inheritance: Epigenetics and the Poisoning of Michigan

Older Adults’ Forgetfulness Tied To Faulty Brain Rhythms In Sleep

Oldest fossils ever found show life on Earth began before 3.5 billion years ago

Stealth turns 40: Looking back at the first flight of Have Blue

More Hurricanes? Prepare for Stormier Pop Charts

What It’s Like to Evacuate a Museum in a Natural Disaster

The Russian Villagers Living In The Shadow Of A Nuclear Tragedy

Deliverance From 27,000 Feet

Marsupial long thought extinct rediscovered living in the Australian desert

Africa’s new elite force: women gunning for poachers and fighting for a better life

A mysterious case baffling authorities may involve body brokers

How the Index Card Cataloged the World

As Venezuela Collapses, Children Are Dying of Hunger

When the Cure Is the Cause: The Case of the Green Hairy Tongue

We may know why younger brothers are more likely to be gay

Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program [autoplay video]

Norway votes to decriminalise drugs and offer treatment instead of jail time

The (Math) Problem With Pentagons

A 3-Mile-Wide ‘Potentially Hazardous’ Asteroid Will Fly by Earth on Saturday. Here’s How to Watch

The science that’s never been cited

Overcoming Us vs. Them

The College Student Who Decoded the Data Hidden in Inca Knots

The Las Vegas Resort Using Microwaves to Keep Guns Out of its Casino

‘High-status’ portrait of bearded woman bought by Wellcome Collection

The Lucrative Art of Chicken Sexing

No Signals Detected From Interstellar Visitor

Star system has record eight exoplanets

New underwater discoveries in Greece reveal ancient Roman engineering

‘€˜A different dimension of loss’: inside the great insect die-off

How forced marriage saved a US defector in North Korea

AVATAR Therapy for Auditory Hallucinations: If You Can’t Beat the Voices, Join Them

Newly Declassified Documents: Gorbachev Told NATO Wouldn’t Move Past East German Border